Tagata o te Moana. 2008-09-20

Tagata o Te Moana is a round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio NZ National on Saturdays at 5.30pm.
This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman and the items are:

A Samoan Cabinet Minister is charged with immigration offences in the United States;
A call for more action to combat the Pacific Pandemic...dengue fever;
Operations at the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua region are continuing as normal despite a series of attacks around mine facilities;
Maternity leave provisions in Fiji are costing women jobs;
Australian heath officials say well-off, heterosexual Australian men are putting themselves at risk having unprotected sex while on trips to Papua New Guinea;
Controversy over a United States World War Two bomber recovered from a PNG swamp;
Moves to save reefs in the Pacific;
More on the impact of rising fuel costs on the price of food in the Pacific.